If you watched the New Hampshire primary
results come in as I did, you would have noticed that the distribution of
votes remained constant, with no change or fluctuation over the whole
state, all night. In the real world- that doesn't happen. In the real world
we could have expected sudden surges as one candidate pulled ahead as votes
from some towns were tallied, but that didn't happen- the percentages
stayed constant- a sure sign that the fix was in from the beginning.Jim
Condit clearly spells out the problem we’re facing at www.votefraud.org Especially see
these key articles in his archives http://www.votefraud.org/primer_archive_articles.html

"My mom, aunt, and dad all voted for RP today in my
hometown, My mom and aunt both work passing out ballots, and checking them
off. I just looked at the politico map and it says their town has ZERO
votes for Ron. Now i know that there isn't corruption on voting in that
little town, so where they reported it must be. What do I do, anyone
know???

Originally Posted by sstjean View Post
This was posted to ronpaul-801 tonight: "This town numbers are wrong
wrong wrong on this map. I am from Sutton originally and my parents and one
aunt all voted for Ron Paul today and Sutton says 0. So this is wrong. This
is a town that had 20 people counting the ballots and I have no reason to
believe that they cheated. Small town and I was born and raised there. The
real numbers will come in by morning. The electronic machines in the big
towns are the ones we have to worry about."

John Silvestro and his small private business, LHS
Associates, has
exclusive programming contracts for ALL New Hampshire voting machines,
which combined will count about 81 percent of the vote in the primary.
And
as to Super Tuesday and beyond: Silvestro also has the programming
contracts for the states of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont.

Silvestro IS the New Hampshire chain of custody in New England -- Or at
least, a very large component in it.

Last fall, with the help of citizens like you, Black Box Voting began
working on "Chain of Custody" projects, in which we identified
some of
the areas of concern that might affect many jurisdictions at once.
First
on the list for the Northeast U.S. is LHS Associates, a vendor with
inside access to every memory card, as well as to the chips containing
the "brain" of the Diebold optical scan machines.

RARE VIDEO FOOTAGE

In an unusual confluence of available video, we obtained footage of
Silvestro grappling with Harri Hursti, the master hacker who had his
way
with the Diebold optical scans in Leon County, Florida in the famous
exploit that was showcased in the film Hacking Democracy.

The exact same make, model and version hacked in the Black Box Voting
project in Leon County is used throughout New Hampshire, where about 45
percent of elections administrators hand count paper ballots at the
polling place, with the remaining locations all using the Diebold
version
1.94w optical scan machine. Because the voting machine locations tend
to be urban, this represents about 81 percent of the New Hampshire
voters.

The video shows Harri Hursti testifying on Sept. 19 before the New
Hampshire legislature, attempting to explain significant
vulnerabilities
requiring urgent mitigations; throughout his testimony, Silvestro
inserted his own comments, opinions, misstatements and speculations.

VOTING MACHINE CHECKUP

One area of disagreement between Hursti and Silvestro was the amount of
expertise needed to exploit the Diebold 1.94w optical scan system.
Silvestro claimed (in a strange contortion of reasoning) that he
doesn't
hire very skilled programmers, implying that this makes New Hampshire
elections more secure.

Hursti pointed out that hiring programmers with a lack of knowledge is
generally not considered a security feature, and also that an average
high schooler can learn to exploit the system in two days to two weeks.

WE THINK IT DOESN'T TAKE THAT LONG

Black Box Voting purchased a Diebold optical scan with 1.94w firmware,
and chose a computer repair shop out of the phone book, took it in,
grabbed the first available technician. It took him less than 10
minutes
to zero in on the memory card as a point of critical vulnerability --
and oh my, did he point out some other intersting things!

NEW HAMPSHIRE HASN'T UPGRADED SYSTEM SECURITY

Silvestro tries to claim that the security problems have been fixed in
newer editions. Whether or not they have been, it's a moot point in New
Hampshire where the upgrade is not made unless the Ballot Law
Commission meets, and they have not met for ages.

Silvestro then points to extraordinary measures taken by other states
to enact special procedural safeguards, but of course none of those
were
implemented in New Hampshire either, because the Ballot Law Commission
has not bothered to meet since March 2006.

IN FACT, NEW HAMPSHIRE HAS NOT IMPLEMENTED MITIGATIONS FOR KNOWN
RISKS

Not only that, they have turned all the programming over to a sole
source private company, taking vote counting for 81 percent of New
Hampshire citizens out of the public domain.

LHS is not subject to public records requirements, as the government
is, at least, not in New Hampshire. The control over memory card
contents
is absolute; when cards malfunction or get lost, LHS brings the
replacements.

CONTROL OVER THE "BRAINS" OF THE MACHINE: ACCESS TO THE
CHIP

Since LHS maintains the machines, repairs the machines, and replaces
the machines -- often on Election Day -- when they malfunction, they
have
intimate access to the chips, sockets, ports, communications devices
and other electronic components.

Silvestro stated that the chip has "read only memory" and cannot
be
reprogrammed without frying it under ultraviolet light overnight.

Hursti never had a chance to examine the hardware, nor have most of the
recent university studies had access. But our friendly neighborhood
computer repair guy differed with Silvestro on the point of plug &
play
reprogramming of the guts of the machine.

After I push the button to send this message out to the media and the
citizenry, I'll work on getting a short YouTube video of the Accuvote
checkup by our local computer repairman. And before you say, "But
wait!
He's not a world class expert!" -- That's just the point.

Our local computer repairman may hit or miss on some of his analyses.
You'll all be able to try your hand at second guessing him as soon as
the next video is up. But if he hits even one of his ideas for how to
exploit the machine to steal votes, that's all it takes. From someone
who
is not, certainly, a world class hacker or even a hacker at all.

The We the People
Foundation has filed this lawsuit in all 50 states to push for verifiable
paper ballots in all elections http://www.wethepeoplefoundati.....-11-06.htm They deserve everyone’s
support. We must immediately challenge this rigged Primary and demand a
recount. If Ron Paul’s campaign staff doesn’t do it, as far as
I’m concerned that would be indicative of plants on the staff.

How could that be? Melinda Pillsbury has
exposed the Cato Institute, a Libertarian Think Tank in Washington DC as
being controlled by the Neocons- see her excellent article
"The Enemy Within- Cato's Covert Agenda" at http://www.nolanchart.com/author18.html

Jim Condit of www.votefraud.org had poll watchers in
at least some of the precincts. I talked with him yesterday, and will be in
touch with him about anything they might have found out. If there were any
discrepancies in those precincts that used paper ballots, he would have
found them out. Also, if the result from the precincts counted via paper
ballots differed noticably from those where the vote was counted by LHS
associates using hackable Diebold Machines, that would also raise a red
flag. Stay tuned folks, and while this gets sorted lets keep pushing full
tilt for Dr. Paul. We have no choice at this point, he either gets elected,
or we get the iron boot of tyranny stomping in our faces forever.

WHAT TO DO: Call Ron Paul's
campaign office at 703-248-9115 and
demand that they officially demand a
RECOUNT!! The Supreme Court has ruled that
a constitutional election entails two things 1) That we have the right to
cast a vote, and 2) We have the right to have that vote COUNTED
accurately!

It is very evident from the information cited
in this message that LHS Associates just rigged the New
Hampshire primary. Every American who has contributed to the
Ron Paul campaign has just been ROBBED along with the
registered voters of New Hampshire including those in Sutton whose votes
were not counted! Email this whole alert to Ron Paul via this contact form
on their website http://www.ronpaul2008.com/contact/form